How do you split a word and make a list of its letters?

[antonio III cabreira]

Hi All,

Is there a keyword defined that can break a word and returns its
letters into a list? The list of letters would be used for the "Press
Key Native" keyword.

Thanks!

[Jussi Malinen]

Hi Antonio!

I can't think of an existing keyword that would do that, but it is
very easy to do this in your own library.

1. create a file char_splitter.py and add this function there:

def split_chars(text):
return [c for c in text]

2. take this library into use

Library char_splitter.py

3. Profit!

- Jussi

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[memoselyk]

On Nov 24, 8:23 am, Jussi Malinen <jussi.ao.mali...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Antonio!
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> I can't think of an existing keyword that would do that, but it is
> very easy to do this in your own library.
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Or you could have that code direclty in your TC or as a User keyword.
Taking adavantage of built-in Evaluate keyword

${string} = | Set Variable | NOW WITH SPACES
@{chararr} = | Evaluate | [ ch for ch in '${string}' ]
:FOR | ${letter} | IN | @{chrarr}
| # Do something with the letter here

Note that I'm using a single quote to delimit the string so, if your
string contains a single quote this won't work.
You may use triple quotes, but again, this doesnt work if a string
ends in a quote.

Hope it helps...

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> > Hi All,
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> > Is there a keyword defined that can break a word and returns its
> > letters into a list? The list of letters would be used for the "Press
> > Key Native" keyword.
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> > Thanks!
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Guillermo

[memoselyk]

Hi Antonio

On Nov 24, 8:23 am, Jussi Malinen <jussi.ao.mali...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Antonio!
>
> I can't think of an existing keyword that would do that, but it is
> very easy to do this in your own library.
>

Or you could achieve the same with-in RF. In your TC or a User
Keyword.

${string} = | Set Variable | NOW WITH SPACES
@{chararr} = | Evaluate | [ ch for ch in '${string}' ]
:FOR | ${letter} | IN | @{chrarr}
| # Do something with the letter here

Note: That I'm using single quotes to delimit the string, so if your
string contains a single quote you'd get SyntaxError.

Hope it helps,
Guillermo

[Pekka Klärck]

2011/11/22 antonio III cabreira <antonio.c...@gmail.com>:

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> Is there a keyword defined that can break a word and returns its
> letters into a list? The list of letters would be used for the "Press
> Key Native" keyword.

There were already good replies on how to implement such keyword
yourself. Adding such a keyword into Strings library [1] so please
submit an issue [2] about it. Strings actually already has `Split
String` but it requires a delimiter. It would probably be best to
implement new `Split String To Characters` keyword than trying to
enhance the old one somehow.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/wiki/StringLibrary
[2] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/list

Cheers,
.peke

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[antonio III cabreira]

I've tried Jussi's and Memoselyk's take on it and both ways worked. I ended up using the python list() function though. Thanks at least I know there are other options that I can use the next time I encounter this type of behavior.

I also filed this as an issue: 

Issue 1011:

Add keyword 'Split String To Characters' keyword